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Sophia Johanna Lohmann<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n PhD Candidate<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Institut f\u00fcr Kulturwissenschaft der Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin sophiajohanna.lohmann@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n Sophia Lohmann is pursuing a PhD on essayism as a cultural practice of “intervening writing” (eingreifendes Schreiben) in the works of North American women authors. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and Political Science at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, she pursued a Master’s in Cultural Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Edinburgh. Her current research focuses on evolving practices of knowledge and representation within the essay form, particularly in relation to race and gender. Through paradigmatic analyses of works by Joan Didion, Audre Lorde, and Susan Sontag, she investigates and reconceptualizes the specific aesthetics and ethics of regarding and textualizing the Other. Initially supervised and supported by the Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS, literature department) at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, her research has since been carried forward at the Institute for Cultural Theory and History at Humboldt University. Her research is supported by a doctoral fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes), after previously receiving the Humboldt Research Track Fellowship from the Excellence Initiative. She most recently completed a research semester at UC Berkeley, California. Her broader academic interests encompass the history of knowledge, aesthetic and cultural practices, genre and film theory, gender and queer studies, transcultural literature, and practices of resistance in the arts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n She has previously worked as a research assistant at the Peter Szondi Institute for Comparative Literature and later as project assistant at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW, Anthropocene Curriculum). Additionally, she served as head of editorial department for the print magazine <\/span><\/span>ROM \u2013 Gesellschaftsmagazin<\/i><\/span><\/span>. For several years, she has worked as a freelance editor and writer (e.g., <\/span><\/span>ZEIT<\/i><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>Epitext<\/i><\/span><\/span>). Currently, alongside her academic research, she is involved in the development of two screenplays and is working on a collection of essays.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Academic publications<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n \u00bbWider den Stand. Transformatorische Schreibweisen, Essays im Wandel(n) und der fluide Textk\u00f6rper in Maggie Nelsons <\/span>The Argonauts<\/i><\/span>\u00ab, in: Iris D\u00e4rmann \/ Andreas Gehrlach (Eds.): <\/span>Widerstand und Ablehnung<\/i><\/span>. Berlin: De Gruyter, publication planned for 2024.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00bbWelt empfangen, Um\/frieden verweigern. Dimensionen des Versammelns, Transformierens und Affizierens im Essay\u00ab, in: Sebastian K\u00f6the \/ Antonio Lucci \/ Beate Absalon et al. (Eds.): <\/span>Empfangen. Die andere Seite der Gabe<\/i><\/span>. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \u00bbThe phantasmatic and the real. Navigating the essay\u2019s critical potential\u00ab, in: Jasper Delbecke (Ed.): <\/span><\/span>From the Scenic Essay to the Essay-Exhibition. Expanding the Essay Form in the Arts beyond Literature and Film<\/i><\/span><\/span>. Ghent: SPAM \u2013 Studies in Performing Arts & Media, 2023.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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